![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() But as he plots and plans, he neglects to ask the most important question: What does Kiera want? He can’t think about that too much, though, because once he gets the girl, it’ll all sort itself out. With other boys circling Kiera like sharks, Del needs to make his move fast. In exchange, Del just has to get answers to the Pledgers’ questions…about sex ed. But Del’s not about to lose his dream girl, and that’s where fellow pledger Jameer comes in. His dad thinks his wires are crossed, and his best friend, Qwan, doesn’t believe any girl is worth the long game. ![]() Though he quickly realizes he’s inadvertently signed up for a Purity Pledge. So when Kiera volunteers for an opportunity at their church, Del’s right behind her. And now, during their junior year, she’s finally available. Two-time Edgar Award finalist Lamar Giles spotlights the consequences of societal pressure, confronts toxic masculinity, and explores the complexity of what it means to be a “real man.”ĭel has had a crush on Kiera Westing since kindergarten. Reynolds)Ĥ starred reviews! * An Indie Next List Pick! * Named one of Bank Street College of Education's Best Children’s Books of the Year! Jackson) "Heartfelt and hilarious on every page!" (Justin A. I couldn’t put it down.” (Nic Stone) "I laughed, I gasped, I church grunted through every chapter." (Tiffany D. ![]()
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7/8/2023 0 Comments A study in scarlet book cover![]() ![]() The story is related from the point of view of his colleague Dr John Watson. Then we are given a demonstration of his amazing powers of observation and clinical analysis. He is part-Bohemian, a violin player who relaxes with cocaine, and a freelance consultant detective who outwits Scotland Yard. First we are introduced to the racy and enigmatic figure of Holmes himself. ![]() The first part of A Study in Scarlet follows what I have called elsewhere the classic Sherlock Holmes formula. ![]() The novel first appeared in Beeton’s Christmas Annual for 1887 and was then republished as a single volume by Ward Lock & Co in July 1888. It was Arthur Conan Doyle’s first book to be published – for which he received the meagre sum of £25 for all UK rights. A Study in Scarlet (1888) marks the first ever appearance in print of Sherlock Holmes, the now world-famous detective. ![]() ![]() Her next book, City of Nightmares, comes out in January 2023. It has been adapted into a WEBTOON Original, which has garnered nearly 2 million subscribers and a hundred million views. Her critically acclaimed debut, Not Even Bones, received a starred review from Booklist, and was shortlisted for Cybilis awards and the Sunburst Award for Speculative Fiction. Rebecca Schaeffer can be found sitting in a cafe on the other side of the world, writing about villains, antiheroes and morally ambiguous characters. ![]() The Webtoon adaptation of the trilogy has garnered over a hundred million reads and nearly 2 million subscribers. ![]() Rebecca Schaeffer is the critically acclaimed author of Not Even Bones and its sequels. ![]() ![]() Rebecca Schaeffer is the author of the critically acclaimed Market of Monsters series, which began with Not Even Bones, as well as the forthcoming City of Nightmares. Now, tangled up in the aftermath an explosive assassination that killed hundreds and left only two survivorsNess, and a Nightmare boy who she suspects might be planning to eat herNess has to survive, figure out who’s trying to kill her, and stop them, before she loses everything that matters to her. Rebecca Schaeffer Not Even Bones (Market of Monsters) Audio CD Unabridged, Decemby Rebecca Schaeffer (Author), Almarie Guerra (Reader) 2,145 ratings Book 1 of 3: Market of Monsters See all formats and editions Kindle 9.49 Read with Our Free App Audiobook 0. Here you’ll find bios of various lengths, promotional photographs, as well as various promotional tools for my novels. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() But things become complicated when Caden finds himself falling in love with DylanĬataloging source DLC Dietrich, Cale Dewey number Index no index present LC call number PZ7.1. They have to be at the top of their game- because whoever the girl doesn't choose will die. The girl they are competing for is important to the organization, and each boy will pursue her. Dylan is a Bad: the brooding, dark-souled guy, and dangerously handsome. The Love Interest by Cale Dietrich is a gay YA thriller that is non-stop action from start to finish. Dylan is a Bad: The brooding, dark-souled guy, and dangerously handsome. Caden is a Nice: The boy next door, sculpted to physical perfection. Caden is a Nice: the boy next door, sculpted to physical perfection. The agents are called Love Interests because getting close to people destined for great power means getting valuable secrets. ![]() The agents of the secret spy organization are all teenagers.In a secret organization that cultivates teenage spies, the stakes are high for two agents, Caden and Dylan, whose mission to compete for a girl destined for great power becomes complicated when Caden finds himself falling in love with his competition.The agents are called Love Interests because getting close to people destined for great power means getting valuable secrets. Identity (Philosophical concept) - Fiction Title: The Love Interest Author: Cale Dietrich Genres: YA, Contemporary Goodreads There is a secret organization that cultivates teenage spies.Label The love interest Title The love interest Statement of responsibility Cale Dietrich Creator Youre just a Love Interest.' 'No, Im not.' I lower the gun and aim it at his right kneecap. ![]() ![]() For us, Langston Terrace wasn t an in-between place. On her ninth birthday, the family moved into Langston Terrace, a new low-income housing development. When he had saved enough money, he sent for his family, and Washington, D.C. It had, in some sense, already begun for her family and many others and, three months after her birth, her father went north to Washington, D.C., to find work and make a way for his wife and children. Greenfield was born Eloise Glynn Little, on May 17, 1929, in Parmele, North Carolina, five months before the stock market crash marked the official beginning of the Great Depression. ![]() ![]() Eloise Greenfield is the 11th winner of the NCTE Award for Excellence in Poetry for Children, presented at the annual convention in Detroit, in November, In being honored for the aggregate body of her work, she joins a distinguished list of former winners: David McCord (1977), Aileen Fisher (1978), Karla Kuskin (1979), Myra Cohn Livingston (1980), Eve Merriam (1981), John Ciardi (1982), Lilian Moore (1985), Arnold Adoff (1988), Valerie Worth (1991), and Barbara Juster Espensen (1994). Sims reveals that Greenfield s early love of music echoes in both the form and content of her poetry and prose. 1 Profile Eloise Greenfield RUDINE SIMS BISHOP This month, Profiles editor, Rosalinda Barrera, invites Rudine 630 Sims Bishop to help us learn about Eloise Greenfield, recipient of the Eleventh NCTE Award for Excellence in Poetry. ![]() 7/7/2023 0 Comments Squad book maggie![]() ![]() Literalizing pack mentality, Tokuda-Hall ( The Mermaid, the Witch, and the Sea) smoothly explores the complexities of so-called sisterhood. But when Arianna’s trophy boyfriend attacks Becca, she lashes out in wolf form, and the group begins to splinter-Amanda challenges Arianna’s leadership, and Becca crushes on Marley as the FBI searches for the missing boys. Despite being conscripted into the pack, Becca enjoys the power that comes with the bargain, as well as having an outlet for her anger and hunger. Every full moon, bubbly blonde Marley assertive Amanda, cued as Black and rich, ruthless Arianna, who reads as white, choose one sexually aggressive male as their victim-attacking at the moment when a party hookup turns nonconsensual-and they require a fourth person to help them fully devour their prey. If the popular girls at a Bay Area high school seem overly eager to befriend smart, queer, Asian-cued Becca, they have a specific reason in mind: they’re werewolves in need of another packmate. ![]() 7/6/2023 0 Comments Chalice by robin mckinley![]() ![]() It’s very small-scale, concerned with the events of a single community, and magic coming from bees or the land is an approach I really liked (and the bees are basically a character of their own!). Despite the promising-sounding concept and my love of slice of life, I was afraid I’ll have to drop it. Repetitive, infodumpy, full of randomly capitalised words, with the words “Master” and “demesne” probably repeating ten times each in the first two pages, pages-long digressions, and no dialogue whatsoever until about 30 pages in. This book had one of the worst beginnings I have ever seen. They have to learn to work together and care for their demesne, which is still reeling from the sudden loss of the previous Master and Chalice. ![]() Inexperienced and struggling, her task is made even harder by the fact that the newly chosen Master is a former priest of Fire and no longer entirely human. Let us have the sweetness now.”īeekeeper Mirasol has recently been chosen as Chalice, the second most powerful person in Willowlands, whose task is to bind the land and its people together. ![]() ![]() “The last Master and Chalice died ill, and without Heir or apprentice. “It is a strange Mastership and a strange Chalicehood,” he replied. Another buddy read with Keikii, this time gone much better than the last. ![]() 7/6/2023 0 Comments Poem the hill we climb![]() ![]() ![]() Line 47: “merge,” “mercy,” “might,” “might,” “right,” “love,” “becomes,” “birthright”.Line 44: “interrupted,” “intimidation,” “generation”.Line 40: “power,” “chapter,” “laughter”.Line 39: “prepared,” “heirs,” “terrifying,” “hour”.Line 33: “democracy,” “periodically,” “delayed”.Line 31: “destroy,” “country,” “delaying,” “democracy”.Line 26: “victory,” “blade,” “bridges,” “made”.Line 14: “country,” “committed,” “cultures,” “colors,” “conditions”.Line 55: “known,” “nook,” “nation,” “corner,” “country”.Line 54: “rebuild,” “reconcile,” “recover”.Line 51: “forefathers,” “first,” “realized,” “revolution”.Line 49: “breath,” “bronze,” “wounded,” “world,” “wondrous”.Line 45: “blunders,” “become,” “burdens”.Line 44: “interrupted,” “intimidation,” “inaction,” “inertia,” “inheritance”.Line 43: “bruised,” “benevolent,” “but,” “bold,” “fierce,” “free”.Line 41: “possibly,” “prevail,” “possibly,” “prevail”.Line 31: “destroy,” “delaying,” “democracy”.Line 14: “compose,” “country,” “committed,” “cultures,” “colors,” “characters,” “conditions”. ![]() ![]() Line 5: “norms,” “notions,” “just,” “justice”. ![]() 7/6/2023 0 Comments The uncommon reader a novella![]() Her reading changes her world view and her relationship with people like the oleaginous Prime Minister and his repellant advisors. Ackerley, Jean Genet, Ivy Compton Burnett and the classics) and intelligently. ![]() The Uncommon Reader is non other than HM The Queen, who drifts accidentally into reading when her corgis stray into a mobile library parked at Buckingham Palace. What would happen if the Queen became a reader of taste and discernment rather than of Dick Francis? The answer is a perfect story. The Plot Alan Bennett's classic story about Queen Elizabeth II. This is a sweet novella, small and perfectly formed. Read my review of Village Diary by Miss ReadĪt the last meeting of our Village Classics Book Group we all agreed on The Uncommon Reader following a request that we read something with a royal theme. And also, who knew you could play a trombone on a horse? We watched the Coronation concert in the village hall, and then on the Monday had fun at our village street party where we ate lots of cake, and played pass the parcel. I did watch the Coronation and was so impressed with the members of the armed forces marching in sync whilst playing the same tune. ![]() We had fun this weekend celebrating with the village. ![]() ![]() So, did you watch the Coronation? Some people did, some didn't. ![]() 7/6/2023 0 Comments The 90's chuck klosterman![]() ![]() On a 90’s Thursday night, more people watched any random episode of Seinfeld than the finale of Game of Thrones. Pop culture accelerated without the aid of a machine that remembered everything, generating an odd comfort in never being certain about anything. Happily, Chuck Klosterman is more than up to the job.īeyond epiphenomena like "Cop Killer" and Titanic and Zima, there were wholesale shifts in how society was perceived: the rise of the internet, pre-9/11 politics, and the paradoxical belief that nothing was more humiliating than trying too hard. The 90s brought about a revolution in the human condition we’re still groping to understand. By the end, exposing someone’s address was an act of emotional violence, and nobody picked up their new cell phone if they didn’t know who it was. ![]() In the beginning, almost every name and address was listed in a phone book, and everyone answered their landlines because you didn’t know who it was. ![]() ![]() In between, one presidential election was allegedly decided by Ross Perot while another was plausibly decided by Ralph Nader. It was long ago, but not as long as it seems: The Berlin Wall fell and the Twin Towers collapsed. From the bestselling author of But What if We’re Wrong, a wise and funny reckoning with the decade that gave us slacker/grunge irony about the sin of trying too hard, during the greatest shift in human consciousness of any decade in American history. ![]() |